I wanted to see how my computer stacks up against mass effect 2. So i ran that can you run it stuff.

They said i have 2.7 gigs of video ram. Is that possible?

Video Card Recommended: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, or better You Have: GeForce GTS 250		PASS
Features: Recommended attributes of your Video Card     Required You Have Video RAM 512 MB 2.7 GB Hardware T&L Yes Yes Pixel Shader version 3.0 4.0 Vertex Shader version 3.0 4.0

Video RAM means in general all forms of random access memory used to store image data for a computer display. Mass Effect 2 has pretty bad textures, it only takes up about 1.5-2 gigs of my 8 gigs of RAM so you should be fine.

I have 4 gigs of ram. But I am confused as to why it says 2.7 gigs of video ram. Its just the onboard video ram + the left over ram from your PC?

I don't know how they calculate it, I just know some of the ram on your machine also counts on top of the one on the video card. One test said I had 4 gigs of it...

yes it very well could there is some factor's that can play it depends on what you may have on board your motherboard does your motherboard have on board video card Ram?

to find out more about your machine

try this program

AIDA32

is a professional system information, diagnostics and benchmarking program running on Win32 platforms. It extracts details of all components of the PC. It can display information on the screen, print it, or save it to file in various formats like HTML, CSV or XML. For corporate users, AIDA32 offers command-line switches, network audit and audit statistics, remote system information and network management.

Starting with version 3.00, AIDA32 is released in 3 different variants, Enterprise, Personal and network.

I have a 64 bit PC

here are the specs copied right from newegg(where i bought the PC a few weeks ago)


Processor Intel Core i7 860(2.8GHz)
Processor Main Features 64 bit Quad-Core Processor
Memory 4GB (2GB x 2) DDR3 1600
Hard Drive 500GB SATAII
Optical Drive 1 24X DL DVD+/-RW Drive
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTS250 1GB
Audio Sound card - Integrated
Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps
Power Supply 700W
Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Special Features NZXT Gamma Gaming Tower
Motherboard
Chipset Intel P55
CPU
CPU Type Intel Core i7
Installed Qty 1
CPU Speed 860(2.80GHz)
CPU Socket Type LGA 1156
CPU Main Features 64 bit Quad-Core Processor
Graphics
GPU/VPU Type NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
Graphics Interface PCI Express 2.0 x16
Memory
Memory Capacity 4GB DDR3
Memory Speed DDR3 1600
Form Factor DIMM 240-pin
Memory Spec 2GB x 2
Memory Slot (Total) 4
Memory Slot (Available) 2
Maximum Memory Supported 16GB
Hard Drive
HDD Capacity 500GB
HDD Interface SATA II
Optical Drive
Optical Drive Type DVD±RW
Optical Drive Spec 24X DL DVD+/-RW Drive
Audio
Audio Chipset Integrated
Communications
LAN Chipset Integrated
LAN Speed 10/100/1000Mbps
Front Panel Ports
Front USB 2
Front eSATA 1 x eSATA (based on motherboard availability)
Front Audio Ports 2
Back Panel Ports
PS/2 1
Video Ports 1 VGA, 1 DVI, 1 HDMI
RJ45 1 port
Rear Audio Ports 3 ports
S/P DIF 1 x Coaxial
Expansion
External Bays 4 x external 5.25" drive bays
Internal Bays 6 x internal 3.5" drive bays
PCI Slots (Available/Total) 2 x PCI-Express x16
1 x PCI-Express x1
4 x PCI


So as far as I know, no extra onboard video ram? I am not sure though. I am fairly new at all this.

I would still run the Aida32 program it's free an run it it will tell you exactly what your PC has

you can get it here:

http://www.brothersoft.com/aida32-personal-system-information-download-14045.html

Isn't it just for 32 bit systems? Or is that not what the 32 stands for?

Built-in video cards don't typically have built in RAM, they use system memory.

It is counting left over system ram as additional vram.

As far as I remember the 250 GTS has a 512MB and 1GB version.